Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Meet the Duggars in California

If you live in the San Francisco area, mark your calendar for June 16th. The Duggars are coming to town!

Saturday, June 16th, 5-9pm

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar to speak at Values Advocacy Council's Family Night

Calvary Chapel San Jose1175 Hillsdale Ave, San Jose, California 95118

5-6pm: Private meet-and-greet reception with the Duggars*
7-9pm: Values Advocacy Council program with Jim Bob and Michelle

Registration is required. To reserve your spot, visit the registration page.
Well-behaved children are welcome. Childcare is not provided, but a parent-child room with large monitors will be available.

*At the request of the Duggars, the main program, which includes a book signing and runs from 7-9pm, is free and open to the public. The Duggars have gifted their time and are not being compensated. If you wish to attend the private meet-and-greet reception from 5-6pm, the cost is $50 for adults, $10 for children ages 12-17, and free for children ages 5-11. The meet-and-greet is a fundraiser for Values Advocacy Council events and will include hors d'oeuvres and drinks.

**The food truck portion of the event has been removed, due to logistics.

Imagine homeschooling little ones, planning weddings for older children, being available for counsel and support for married children, being actively involved parents to 19 children, and being actively involved grandparents to 10 grandchildren (and counting), all while maintaining a healthy marriage and taking time for missions and service.

Come learn how Jim Bob and Michelle do it all. They will also speak about the power of forgiveness; balancing fame, family, and faith; and dealing with criticism from the media and public. The Duggars are a real family, and they do not claim to be perfect, nor do they claim to have everything under control. Come hear their heart for American families and for America.

Kendra has been private so far. She may have chosen to actually be classy and wise and not show herself laboring at home for days and then rushed to the hospital for an emergency c-section or blood transfusion. Therefore Michelle would have no camera time and JimBob a payout. Hence, a trip to California instead.

This is their daughter in law, not daughter, she may not want anyone other than Joe and her doctor/midwife and maybe her own mother present. IMO, labor and delivery are much easier with as few people present as possible. Then you can focus on your contractions, and getting your baby delivered.

2:24 - Please read the whole post before commenting. It clearly states that the meet and greet is a fundraiser for the organization and that the Duggars are not receiving any compensation for appearing.

5:44 I think you may be right. If anyone other than Joe is in the room it should be her own mother. It seems that when a Duggar gets married, we seldom see or hear anything about the in-laws family. Almost as if they are taking a back seat to Jim Bob and Michelle.

Anon @2:25PM Your sarcasm is very rude. People do love Duggar family and happy to see them. In addition you are here making fun of three women whom we've been following since their childhood and whom we want to see on TV. Making fun of their sufferings is cruel .

Wasn't Michelle at Marcus's birth as well? She was in the car as they drove to the birthing center. Honestly, we have no idea if she was present for Meredith or Mason's birth. She has made an effort to attend each birth.

It's too bad they'll be out of town or on a travel day for Father's Day though. I'm sure the kids will do something for Jim Bob on a different date.

How we choose to give birth, and who we choose to have in attendance is a very personal decision, and some people don’t want any audience, just a spouse and the birth team. I hope Kendra feels comfortable asserting her preferences on this, and I hope everyone in her periphery has been respectful of her wishes.

I never had my mother at the births of my children. She lived far away and a person never knows whwn a baby will come. Quite often a first baby arrives late but baby could be born any day now. Rather than my mom being around for labor (nobosy knows when their baby will be born anyway) i preferred that she was there for help after the baby arrived. Perhaps that would be the same with kendra. And as many pointed out... kendra would likely prefer her mother to her mother in law.

@ Nancy. You never stop being a parent but once your children are adults and out of the home you really don't "actively parent" them as you're not actually involved in their daily routine. I always saw my job as a parent was to ensure that my children learned not to NEED me to live their lives. The blurb seemed a bit over the top to me.

Parenting and parents are two different words, one is a noun, the other a verb.Being an involved parent means you care, and are there for your kids when they need you. For all we know Kendra has an induction/section scheduled.

Nancy S.- Once your children are adults, it's no longer a parent's job to give unsolicited advice or try to control them. That's why I think it's important for grown children to move out and live on their own, unless there are some extenuating circustances. They need to find their own way in the world without interfering parents. Be there for them to give advice WHEN ASKED for it.

I agree the Duggars likely did not write this promo themselves. However it's also true that the Duggars are MUCH more actively involved in their adult children's lives than most. The adult sons apparently all work for their father in some capacity, and Jim Bob has also provided many of his married children with free or low-cost housing. Actually AFAIK Jinger and Joy are the only children who did NOT get that, as their husbands already had housing prepared for them. But Josh, Jill, Jessa, and Joe all did, and I'd be surprised if Josiah doesn't.

You may want to read the post a little closer. The event is free. It is the optional, private meet and greet that costs extra. Think of it this way: if there wasn't a cost for the private meet and greet, they would likely have too many attendees, and the Dugggars wouldn't be able to chat with any of them. (It would no longer be a private meet and greet.) Sometimes, having a fee for something is necessary to keep the numbers down and keep it special for those who most want to attend.

I looked them up, they seem to be a conservative lobbying group, very similar to the Family Research Council. I wouldn't quite call that kind of group a "charity". But hopefully those who were questioning how politically active the Duggars are, now see that they DO throw their weight behind political causes.

I wish the Duggar's would speak in ND! I miss seeing sweet Michelle and her sweet hubby Jim Bob on TV each week, would love love to meet them in person either in ND where I live, or even if they came to Minnesota, which is close to me also!

It's more than I or many others would be able to pay, but there are definitely people who are able to give this amount to help raise funds. I don't think it's outrageous, though. I've seen plenty of political fundraisers that charge in the hundreds or even thousands.

They have 20 grandchilderen and many more to come. They can not be there and have seen it so many times. They can meet the baby later. The parents of kendra will be there. It is their first. That is so important.

I am so distraught and guttered that you didn’t make it to beautiful, tropical Far North Queensland to see the a Great Barrier Reef when you came to Australia last time.I would t would be lovely to be your hosts.

If you read the whole post, you’ll have the answer to your first question.As to your question about the books, I don’t know if they are selling them or not, but they won’t make much money from them if they are. The authors of professionally published books (as opposed to those that are self published or produced by vanity presses) make a minimal amount of each book sold, they are paid for the book’s content and usually some percentage of the sales. The bigger the author in terms of books previously sold, the more they’re likely to get in royalties on their next book, but the Duggars don’t write bestsellers, so they don’t get much per book sold. If they are selling their books in person, they would have had to buy them from the publisher (at a discounted rate).Though I don’t know the Duggars, or the specifics of their book deals, I know enough authors and people in publishing to know how book deals work. They may have made a lot of money when they turned in the manuscript, but what they make on the sale of individual books is minimal.

I guess the Duggar haters are active. The posts are ridiculous. Yes, it's hateful because many jump to the worst speculation without all the facts. Kendra is the daughter in law so maybe she wants her family there. Maybe Michelle just wants to respect them by letting that special time be just for them? Maybe the event was scheduled in advance and they just are honoring their commitment? Na, it's more fun to find the worst possible motive.

There were times when nobody looked for or suspected there could even be a motive behind anything the Duggars did, and you see how that turned out. There's nothing wrong with questioning or using critical thinking skills. You just did it yourself by offering some reasons why the Duggars won't be in Arkansas that weekend. It's not "hate" to have a question or wonder about something that's become obvious. It isn't nice to call people haters, though.

Anon at 4:49PM: If you are referring to the Josh scandals, while I don't agree with how the Duggars handled what he did as teenager, and think they were naive to assume it would never leak out, I also do not at all blame them for keeping that quiet once they were sure the problem was fixed. Not only to protect Josh but to protect the victims as well.

As for what Josh did as an adult, yes he betrayed Anna and deceived everyone, but that INCLUDED his own parents. I don't agree with the idea that "Josh was a rotten hypocrite who fooled us, so we're going to assume everyone in the family is a phony liar like him".

There is also a big difference between "questioning or using critical thinking skills" and assuming the worst about the Duggars' motives. Some posters here have obviously already judged them as bad parents who are driven by ego and greed and don't really care about the best interests of their children.

Who knows? I worked a museum that sold "gourmet hot dogs" in the snack bar. Aside from the price I honestly couldn't tell a "gourmet" hot dog from a regular one. The staff would eat the one or two that were left in the machine at the end of the day, so I just decided it was marketing. However food trucks sometimes offer better things than just hot dogs, but charge accordingly.

Face reality Michelle herself said she probably will not be able to remember the names of all her grandchildren. Having a large family has many perks but there is always a downside. She is only one person and there is no way you can have a intimate relationship with that many family members. Time does not allow this.

She couldn't have possibly been serious when she said that. Of course she'll know all the grandkids names. Why would she not be able to have a close relationship with all her children and grandchildren? Grandma Duggar seems to have no problem doing just that.

Anon @ 9:13 Grandma duggar only had two childeen and im sure never thought she would have 20 grandchildren. Michelle has had 19 chidren, and will have many many grandchidren so I am sure it will be difficult to keep up with names. Also Michelle could not have raised all her children without consideravle help from her older daughters, it is physically impossoble to give one on one attention to that many children, so with even more grandchildren she will find it difficult to have close telationships with them.

I think this part of the post pretty much says it all to those who are making negative comments:"The Duggars are a real family, and they do not claim to be perfect, nor do they claim to have everything under control."

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